It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

there will be 5 pet sounds songs in the top 20. too much?

maybe there aren't? who knows

#19

http://brianwilsonmusic.tk/xsearch.php?t=R-1526134-1264121582.jpeg

Girl Don't Tell Me - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
214 points, 10 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ztc_lAb5Ws

That line "Your hair's getting long and your shorts mmm they sure feel real fine" - is that actually what he's seeing? It took me years to parse.

"they sure fit you fine"

Yay!!!

Love the double tracking here, and love its placement on the record - the transition to "Help Me Rhonda" is perfect. I can't help but think of this track every time I play "Oh, Inverted World".

No backing vocals here.

Such an awkward song - the melody is all over the place and the tempo has its shoe-laces tied together - but somehow it works.

Help Me Rhonda shoulda placed much higher mind you.

was hoping this would crack the top 10.

Love the obvious guitar rip of Ticket to Ride on the break. Still a great song.

as much as i love this track (kind of a unique one for the beach boys?), i'm surprised it's placed above a lot of these other songs. guess it must fall into the beloved deep cut category. and yeah, the beatles influence is very apparent without being an overt homage.

The ultimate "beloved deep cut". Though there will probably be one or two more album-only tracks sprinkled in the rest of the top 20.

also, "don't talk" eeesh, what a song. love the backing track on the box set -- you suddenly realize how verrrrry sloooooow it is. so beautiful.

so I'm listening to carl wilson's solo album on youtube for the first time

heard this awhile ago, it's okay but I was surprised at how much I disliked the vocals/vocal arrangements for it in general

xp

i remember finding that carl wilson solo album in the stacks at my college radio station and being PSYCHED. and then being DISAPPOINTED.
good track or two though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQN7NZ1Tw_8

#18

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Beach_Boys_-_Break_Away.jpg

Break Away - Single
222 points, 10 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIHjAsnieqQ

awesome.
so many cool beach boys TV clips! mike love especially great there. best mike love stage? maybe.

okay that seems a bit um... high. I mean it's a good song and all but it's definitely under-produced.

xp

^crazy

Why I didn't vote for Breakaway I just don't know. Fantastic non-album single - superbly bittersweet lyrics too.

yeah breakaway is just great part after great part, packed with wonderful moments.

Yes, very strange it placed so high since it's not on any albums and came out during the Boys' first lag period (always saw 20/20 and later Carl & The Passions as points where the Beach Boys seemed to be admitting to themselves they were at an end of an era).

def in my top 5 most listened to bb songs.

al jardine!

I used to like this one more than I do now. Not the best mix in the world.

Breakaway was in my top 5 iirc. It's so breezy, bittersweet, such a spacious sound... one of their most lush songs imho

I'm never not in the mood to hear this song

the excessively dry production on most of it detracts from the overall song imho

Feel the vibrations
In all the sensations
or gtfo

two deep-ish cuts (non-singles, non-pet sounds) in a row ahead

let's hear some guesses

let the wind blow?

Til I Die?

Feel Flows

i wanna pick you up

Vegetables?

Gettin Hungry?

I'm Bugged at my old Man!

(btw this thread should've been called I'm Bugged at My Poll, Man)

#17

Feel Flows - Surf's Up
224 points, 11 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPPq_Cdarig

skip called it!

love this song, synths on it are bonkers

also reportedly ALL Carl...?

in a way, Surf's Up is a throwback in the way that the Feel Flows-Til I Die-Surf's Up trio of songs is SO much better than anything else on the album. This track was used in the Almost Famous ending credits. Total jam.

i think feel flows was what I hoped carl's solo album would be like.

long promised road and a day in the life of a tree are up there xp

i think feel flows was what I hoped carl's solo album would be like.

I know right? instead it's like his attempt to completely get away from everything he did with the Beach Boys.

#16

Let The Wind Blow - Wild Honey
225 points, 9 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslzZ5MqZkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrjMXrf6C7Y